Refresher Exercise
Review of Planning a Report
Creating the Report
Placing Fields on the Report
Creating the Formulas
Advanced Grouping
Selecting Certain Records
Helpful Hints for Formatting the Report
Adding and Working with Text Objects
Hiding and Suppressing Sections
Guidelines
Power Formatting with Multiple Sections
Using Multiple Sections in Reports
Using the Section Expert to Work with Sections
Conditionally Formatting Multiple Sections
Challenge Exercise - Formatting with Multiple Sections
Challenge Exercise - Conditionally Formatting Using DrillDownGroupLevel
Using the Running Totals Feature
Understanding Running Totals
Creating Running Totals for a List of Numbers
Conditional Running Totals
Challenge Exercise - Creating a Conditional Running Total
Prompting with Parameters
Parameter Field Considerations
Creating a Parameter Field
Using a Parameter to Select Records
Using a Parameter Field
Using the Parameter Panel
Creating a Dynamic Value List for Parameter Values
Importing a Pick List
Adding Parameter Values to Text Objects
Allowing Multiple Values in Parameters
Using Multiple Parameter Fields in Reports
Specifying and Limiting a Range
Using Parameters in Conditional Formatting
Using an Edit Mask to Limit String Parameters
Sorting with a Parameter
Using a parameter to set N in a Top N Report
Cascading Parameters
Challenge Exercise - Using and Displaying Parameters
Using Advanced Formula Features
Understanding
How Crystal Reports Processes the Data
What Is a Pass?
Using Evaluation Time Functions
Working with Variables
Declaring a Variable
Assigning a Value to a Variable
Using a Variable in a Formula
Variable Scope
Separating Statements in Complex Formulas
Working with Arrays
Understanding the Evaluation Time Debugger
Challenge Exercise - Understand and Set Up the YTD Comparison Report
Using Sub reporting as a Workaround Solution
Understanding Sub reports
Unlinked versus Linked Subreports
Creating an Unlinked Sub report
Linking a Subreport
Database Links versus Subreports in One-to-Many Situations
Formatting the Subreport
Passing Data from the Main Report into a Subreport
Creating On-Demand Subreports
Creating Hyperlinks
Using Subreports to Link "Unlinkable" Data
Challenge Exercise - Creating Reports with Linked Subreports
Creating Powerful Groups
Creating Custom Groups
Customizing Group Sort Order
Using Group Selection to Filter the Records in the Report
Grouping on a Formula Field
Grouping Hierarchically
Challenge Exercise – Create Customized Grouping
Challenge Exercise - Using Group Selection
Challenge Exercise - Creating a Group Using a Formula
Working with Cross-Tab Reports
Understanding How Cross-Tabs Affect Your Data
Creating a Cross-Tab Report
Creating a Cross-Tab with Multiple
Rows or Columns
Applying a Formatting Style to the Cross-Tab
Customizing the Cross-Tab Format
Changing Background Colors
Formatting Individual Cells
Changing the Summary Operation
Suppressing Rows, Columns or Totals
Repeating Row Heading for Multi-Page Cross-Tabs
Using Alias Names for Column and Row Headings
Charting Cross-Tabs
Customizing Cross-Tab Group Names
Using the CurrentFieldValue Function
Challenge Exercise - Cross-Tab Reports
Report Alerts
What are Report Alerts
Creating Report Alerts
Basing Report Formulas or Conditional Formatting on Report Alerts
Creative Usage for Report Alerts
Challenge Exercise - Using Report Alerts with Parameter
APPENDIX A – Report Templates
A self-paced tutorial teaching the methods used to create report templates to be applied to unformatted reports
APPENDIX B - The Northwind 2008 Sample Database
A relational diagram of tables existing in the Northwind 2008 sample
database provided in the Crystal Reports 2008 class files
APPENDIX C – Installation and System Requirements
A complete listing of operating system and hardware requirements
APPENDIX D – Setup Instructions for Crystal Reports 2008
APPENDIX E - Function and Operator Locations
A complete listing of all the available Formula Functions
and an explanation of the new Custom Functions
APPENDIX F - Glossary
A complete glossary of terms used throughout the book